High Wind Watches in New Jersey
55 high wind watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 55
- Busiest year
- 20126 high wind watches
- Average year
- 3over 18 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Atlantic County31
- Cape May County31
- Ocean County30
- Monmouth County27
- Burlington County26
- Hudson County23
- Cumberland County19
- Middlesex County18
- Passaic County18
- Bergen County17
- Essex County17
- Union County17
- Hunterdon County16
- Morris County16
- Salem County16
- Somerset County16
- Camden County15
- Gloucester County15
- Mercer County15
- Warren County14
- Sussex County13
The latest high wind watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 12:21 PM EST | High Wind Watch | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Ocean, Salem | 13 hr |
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.